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Black Mirror to be adapted into a book series

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Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror has made quite an impact since its inception in 2011. The show made waves domestically, as well as internationally, until it was eventually shipped over to Netflix streaming for a phenomenal third season. With a fourth season currently in the works, series creator Brooker certainly has his hands full. However, Brooker has […]

Hannibal’s David Slade to direct an episode of Black Mirror Season 4

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Director David Slade has recently revealed that he is contributing to season four of Black Mirror. If you don’t know the man by name, then you surely know him by his work: he directed the movie-adaptation of 30 Days of Night several years back, the indie-gem Hard Candy, as well as episodes of (the incredible) Hannibal, and American Gods. He […]

Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Striking Vipers’

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Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Striking Vipers… Charlie Brooker might be frenetic, prone to tangential leaps of inspiration and talking a mile a minute, but there is no way you could call the man boring. Video games, virtual reality and gender politics might seem like strange bedfellows, but somehow he draws it all together whilst […]

Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’

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Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too… Apart from the syntactic call back to a sweet natured provincial sex comedy worked into that title, this episode focuses on grief and how we process it. Similar thematically to Smithereens, Brooker explores the coping mechanisms we all employ and what comes from that. He […]

Black Mirror gets three season 5 posters

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With a little over a week to go until season 5 of Black Mirror arrives on Netflix, three new posters have been revealed for this series’ episodes ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’ featuring Miley Cyrus, ‘Smithereens’, and ‘Striking Vipers’ featuring Anthony Mackie; check them out here… SEE ALSO: Black Mirror season 5 episode trailers and […]

Black Mirror season 5 episode trailers and promotional images revealed

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Ahead of its June 5th premiere, Netflix has unveiled trailers and promotional images for all three episodes in the fifth season of the acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror: ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’ starring Miley Cyrus, Angourie Rice, and Madison Davenport; ‘Smithereens’ starring Andrew Scott, Damson Idris and Topher Grace; and ‘Striking Vipers’ starring Anthony […]

Black Mirror season 5 trailer, premiere date and cast revealed

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Netflix has released the first trailer for the fifth season of Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’ acclaimed anthology series Black Mirror which is set to arrive on the streaming service on June 5th. This series features a star-studded cast that includes Anthony Mackie, Miley Cyrus, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Topher Grace, Damson Idris, Andrew Scott, Nicole […]

Black Mirror casts Anthony Mackie and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II for season 5

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Netflix’s Black Mirror has begun casting for the fifth season of the sci-fi anthology series and Deadline reports the first actors to join are Anthony Mackie (Avengers: Infinity War) and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Aquaman). Production on the fifth season of Black Mirror was pushed back due to their work on the interactive choose-your-own adventure special Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Series creator […]